what does /fit/ think of the buffdudes?
Pretty good at exercise, pretty gayfaggots otherwise
>>37319398
not natty
>>37319398
the buzzfeed the fitness industry. Just same old shit regurgitated just from some homos pretending to be natty.
Apart from fat-loss, are there any benefits to running first thing?
I'm already pretty otter/athletic mode, but I want to run for the health benefits. Realistically, I could only add them in if I did them first thing in the morning, but I don't need to cut.
Pros, cons?
Running general I guess
I really wanna run for a good source of cardio but I feel too anxious to go running. Advice?
otter mode? how much do you bench and squat, be honest here bruv
>>37319367
I felt just like that until I realized that nobody gives a fuck. Everybody has their own shit going on and couldn't give a fuck about you running around.
>tfw born in the Midwest US
>tfw borderline poorfag
>tfw every lady is Amerifat Fuck or bitchy
>Will never have oppertunity to leave US without takng a soul-sucking job like lawyering to get income
All I want to do is explore Europe and Straya, talk to girls with great accents. It will never happen no matter how /fit/ I am. What's the point.
Get a decent education and get a decent job and you will have money to go to Europe and Australia.
backpacking is cheap as shit and you could always choose to live the migrant bum life, there is no rule saying you HAVE to have disposable income to travel, just pack your backs and fucking DO IT
>>37319284
british girls are awful
Every day I see people asking about what they're supposed to do after Starting Strength or a similar beginner's program. There are plenty of good strength programs out there, but if you're mainly interested in size gains the standard recommendation seems to be simply "ppl", which is a bit of a problem because the routines that people come up with based on this recommendation are quite frankly terrible. Just an arbitrary collection of exercises, really.
So I created the attached template as a help for these people. It's not the be-all and end-all program, since there are many ways to reach your goals, but it's a solid program and will get the job done more effectively than most other things out there.
The first time I posted this, my suggestion received a lot of criticism. I thought that was a little funny considering the fact that most people here aren't really qualified to assess something like this - I don't mean that in a bad way, but after all that's the reason I created this program in the first place. Anyway, I feel like it may have discouraged people from trying out the program, so below I'm going to describe how and why the program actually works and why it's effective. You don't have to read or understand any of it in order to pick up the program and just do it - It's just for those of you who are interested in these things.
OVERLOAD
Most people are familiar with the Principle of Progressive Overload, and know that's it's a principle that cannot be violated if you want to make gains of any kind long-term. However, due in part, I think, to Starting Strength's ultra simple (but good) approach and the popularity of powerlifting, most people haven't quite understood what overload truly is. See, most people think that overload is achieved by adding additional weight to the bar. While that's not technically incorrect, intensity is only one small variable of many factors that determine the training load (overLOAD). The training load is the combined impact of intensity and especially volume, along with other factors such as density, proximity to failure, need for psych-up, learning new skills, and even the need for tactical decisions - Essentially the total combined amount of stress induced by a workout.
So you see, aiming to use more weight from workout to workout is not only hard to accomplish, because your strength doesn't increase that rapidly, but it also actually doesn't impact the total training load that much. In other words, adding a tiny bit of weight to the bar only constitutes a very, very small overload. It's still important over time, but as a stand-alone factor it's NOT the most powerful way to overload. And overload is what we want.
An increase in training load over time is always going to be the main driver of progress. In this program, this load increase does not come primarily by frantically trying to keep adding another micro-plate to the barbell. Instead, overload comes mainly from a systematic increase in volume over time, which constitues a much more powerful overload.
PERIODIZATION
It's a fancy word but for all practical intents and purposes, periodization basically just means "plan". There are several different principles at play in this particular program.
We've already discussed the importance of overload and what it actually is, but how is it actually achieved? Gains in strength as well as size are an adaptation. Adaptation is the goal of any training program and is the last phase in a 3 stage process: Stress - recovery - adaptation. "Stress" is the training load of course. As a complete beginner, you can create enough stress/train with a sufficiently large load in a single session to spark this process. If you follow that up with a day of rest to allow for recovery, then adaptation follows (gainz). Thus, to the beginner, a single workout is what is called a "microcycle" (stress - recovery - adaptation). As you become more advanced however, things change. You can no longer achieve a meaningful overload in just a single workout - Instead, the impact of several workouts combine into what is known as a "cumulative effect". The microcycle becomes longer, and now consists of several days. In this program (and many others e.g. Texas Method) a microcycle is 4 days of training or a week long. As a result, we don't attempt to induce overload from workout to workout but from week to week, microcycle to microcycle.
In this program, when a new microcycle begins, several work sets are added to each days. THIS is the main overload. You're also supposed to do an additional rep on some exercises compared to the previous microcycle. Doing that 1 additional rep is fairly managable and it's supposed to be. There should never be any doubt that you will actually be able to accomplish what you're supposed to do in any program. The scenario where you go to the gym and are unsure of whether you can even complete the prescribed workout is all fucked up - You don't leave progression up to coincidence!
You will notice that you only increase the training load over the course of 3 weeks/microcycles (called step-loading), after which there is a week of unloading. The reason for this is that the load you keep increasing is per definition a stressor. You are stressing your body - Not just your muscles, but your whole body and nervous system on a systemic level. When you train hard, the cumulative effect of the workouts result in increased performance, BUT at the same time you also induce fatigue on a systemic level. We're not talking about the kind of fatigue that you feel when you say that you're tired (if it comes to the point where you FEEL chronically fatigued from training, a deload is waaaaay overdue!). Rather, it's a combination of different things happening to your physiology as you keep ramping up the workload. If you keep it up, at some point you'll have enough accumulated fatigue in your body that this fatigue actually "masks" any gains in performance you would otherwise have enjoyed. This is why we deload. One week of deloading allows for residual fatigue to dissipate and for supercompensation to really kick in. THIS is where the gains really come in and all that overload pays off and is what's called "delayed effect or delayed transformation". Thanks to that, we can begin the next mesocycle (next 4 weeks) of the program with a significantly higher amount of weight than last mesocycle, quite simply because we're now bigger and stronger.
Now adding 5 kg to your lifts in 4 weeks may not seem like an awful lot at first glance, but it's no different than many other succesful programs (e.g. 5/3/1) and remember: it's still more than 60 kg in a year, which means that if you came out of Starting Strength with just an 80 kg bench press, you'll be benching 3 plates just a year from now (if you can keep it up, which might be optimistic but that's another story).
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Just finished a 3-week 250mg ED cycle today. I'm down 9lbs, but 4-6lbs of that would be from diet alone. How much water weight did you guys drop post-cycle, if any?
Im on day 8 of my 21 day cycle and I have dropped 3 kg so far. I have been doing 250mg ed for the first week and now I upped the dose to 500mg ed. I feel perfectly fine except a bit hotter and I have to piss every minute because of how much water I am drinking.
Thinking about if I should up to 750mg for the last week or maybe do 750mg eod/e3d?
>>37318810
That gives me an idea
>>37319351
>Literally 'OH NO' the drug
Beginner, benching 80, for ten reps, tried going up to 90 and felt a pain in my forearm, and couldn't get a single rep out. Went back down to 85, and couldn't get a rep out. Should I be working my triceps? I don't think my form is the problem? Using dumbbells.
Stop faping to lolis and see those numbers double
>>37318640
More like other way around
>>37318654
Stop faping to numbers and see those lolis double?
Should they be put down?
>I get my self esteem by insulting others
they're already down
Fucking wizards
Do you agree?
>how to get big
>25kb
P O T T E R Y
This is how I lost a bunch of weight, I couldn't sleep due to insominia so I would sleep all day and wake up go eat and do BJJ and then repeat
>>37318449
Honestly, for a man who can fly and have magical levels of control over his momentum, I would hardly classify the one arm pushup as "training hard".
We're all gonna make it brahs
>health or fitness related
This is fit, either shitpost about basketball shorts or ask questions that the sticky answers.
>>37318391
good job. How?
>>37318391
How do you get a gf? I mean like do you ask the girl "will you be my gf?" or you have to bang after some dates and then you become a couple?
Fucking Vice did it again
http://www.vice.com/read/the-incredible-falsehood-of-the-muscle-man
Pic not related
Hmm... really makes you think...
Dat pic Too edgy for me brah
Seems someone got sand kicked in their face
is it okay to just do pushups and pullups and stuff.
yeh
yeah, its ok, you can do that
yeah, but when you're able to do more than 6 you should get a rucksack filled with rocks
>tfw no 16 year old fucktoy
>>37317966
How old are you OP
>>37317994
24 but I look young ;)
>He doesn't do cardio
>Not even the treadmill
Why the fuck didn't you guys tell me this was so fucking good? I've been doing moderate paced 1 hour runs for the past week, and I feel incredible. Especially during the run, Jesus Christ, the runners high is real and it's amazing.
Redpill me on the treadmill though, is it worth running outside or is this sufficient?
>>37317964
>/fit/
>run
Is it really pick one? C'mon guys
More cardio gains for me
>>37317964
how many meters do you run everyday
I was once strong and lean. Now I'm fat and weak. I tried going back to the gym last night, but even the girls were stronger than me. I also noticed I had fucked up my posture. Now my right hip is hiked up higher than my left. God dammit /fit/. I should just masturbate and stay home.
>>37317841
G-got anymore op?
>>37317841
Do you think she is aware people can see inside her?
>>37317911
I do think that she is, to some extent.
>tfw tried to bench press 120kg now I'm in hospital
life sucks mayne
that sucks haha
how many reps did you get with 118.75 kg?
Now you're known as /thatguy/
>>37317557
>LIGHTWEIGHT BABY